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Erratum: At the end of the article "Who's Afraid of Turnus?" (Page 22), you obviously have to delete the sentence “Indeed…knowledge”. Thank you, and good reading to all.

2018.11.23

I propose in Catulle ou l’anti-César (Paris, 1998) to identify with Calvus the mysterious "brother" so loved by Catullus. Here is a new clue to this effect. At verse 30 of Poem 68, devoted to the death of this "brother", we read Id, Malli, non est turpe, sed magis miserum est ("It's not a shame, Mallius, but rather a misfortune"). Clear and poignant echo to these words of Calvus, that Seneca the Elder has transmitted to us (Controv. 7,4-8): Credite mihi, iudices, non est turpe misereri. Strangely enough, no commentator, to my knowledge, had mentioned it.

2018.09.23

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire, and incidentally "poet" in his spare time: last update.

2018.09.21

We commemorate today the sad anniversary of Virgil’s death. Everybody knows the famous epitaph: